by CCI Ottawa | Jul 5, 2022 | News
Ghina is bubbling over the phone line. She’s 18 years old and is wrapping up her first year at the University of Ottawa where she studies biomedical sciences. It was New Year’s Eve 2015 when she and her family arrived in Toronto on their way to Ottawa. It...
by CCI Ottawa | Jun 22, 2022 | News
It was late March when Alex Skrypnyk contacted CCI Ottawa. His wife’s family were trapped in Ukraine as Russia’s Vladimir Putin waged war. Eventually, the family escaped to Poland where they started the process of applying for visas to travel to Canada. In...
by CCI Ottawa | Dec 21, 2021 | News
A big thank you to Islamic Relief Canada. The organization has made CCI Ottawa one of the recipients of its Share Your Warmth initiative. This is an initiative across the country with volunteers gathering at Ottawa’s Islamic Relief Centre to package winter relief kits...
by CCI Ottawa | Feb 1, 2021 | News
Looking for a few good health care professionals? Oh perfect! I know about 400, right here in the Ottawa area. I’m not sure if that meets the need of the 19 hospitals in the Champlain region, and the Eastern Ontario Laboratory Association. As reported in the Ottawa...
by CCI Ottawa | Aug 11, 2020 | News
Meet Josephine, a CCI client who wants to share the story of her first job in Ottawa. My name is Josephine and working at Dollarama was one of my first work experiences in Canada. I worked at the cash register and in the store answering customers’ questions and...
